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Originally Posted by bkstokes
The Bible tells us to give thanks in all situations. Around 4:30 pm today my four yr old son was attacked by a dog. He bit him on the face. One of the wounds was very close to his left eye. I want to thank my Jesus that my son was spared his vision and that no serious damage was done to him.
My wife is concerned that he will have permanent scars. I told her that it would add character to his face (she didn't like that too much).
Instead of giving him stiches, they bound him with the glue.
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We have a worrisome situation at our home. My son's dog is about a year old now. It is a Heinz 57 mix but the most obvious breeds in her are Great Dane and Boxer. She weights 70-80 lbs.
This dog was an abused approx. 3 month old puppy when we got her. She was frightened at the slightest noise and would run hide with her face between her paws (door slamming, car door closing, lawn mower, etc).
Over the past 9 months after being shown a lot of love she has really come into her own. She is meant to be a yard dog with occasional forays into the house (she loves to sleep on our bed).
Now that she has grown in self confidence she has turned into a good watch dog with a ferocious bark at anybody pulling up in our driveway,etc. That part we like. However recently she has worried us by becoming very aggressive through the chain link fences that seperate us from three of our neighbors. They have small dogs on the other side and our dogs, including this one would run up and down the fence line barking at the dogs. That was ok but at some point this dog started standing up and putting her paws on top of the fence. I know that she could jump the five foot fence in a flash if she realized it. She also has started jumping at the fence. When our neighbor on the side started dogsitting a little dog our dog was barking at it and pushing at the fence at a spot where the bottom was loose and actually went through the fence into their yard. Nobody was more surprised than our dog! She was freaked out that she had made it into the neigbhors yard. Thankfully my wife and the neighbors wife were out there to get her back.
To make matters worse I caught the little boy who is about 7 that lives behind us taunting our dog. He would stand about four feet from the fence and act like he was going to lunge at her and was making threatening noises. Of course she was lunging back at the fence and barking. I saw all of this from our kitchen window and ran out to tell the kid not to do that but I bet he does it when we are not around.
In two weeks my BIL is coming to visit and brining one of those dog security wire set ups where you put a special collar on the dog and if they get too close to the flags or wires or whatever on the peremiter of the yard they get zapped. I am hoping this will keep her from getting too close to the fence and possibly into our neighbors yards. In the meantime we are keeping her in the house unless we are outside. We are also going to get some Beware of Dog signs.
I am glad she is protective and vicious sounding though because we have had a lot of breakins in our neighborhood with things stolen. I think nobody is going to come in our back door with this dog around!
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